You show up late. When you do show up, you’re a total *******. Your driver acts like it’s a serious inconvenience that I’ve burdened him with the “driving people around in a bus” part of his “driving people around in a bus” part of his job. ...Union Greed Nothing Short Of Amazing

It is hard to be surprised by union greed, but rejecting an 8% pay raise with a contract that guarantees they get the second highest pay in the nation, sets a new standard for public union greed and arrogance.

That aside, Supervisor Sean Elsbernd is making a major mistake. The only thing unions understand is total and complete annihilation. Moreover, what the union fully deserves is complete annihilation.

The union pests need to be treated like the termites they are. Thus Elsbernd should be gathering signatures to completely privatize the transportation system.

Negotiation with unions as with termites, simply does not work. Extermination is the only solution. Unfortunately, termites are a much easier problem to deal with.

Wynn said since the president made his remarks, a large corporation that didn’t receive taxpayer dollars pulled out of a $5 million convention at his resorts.

“It was a direct result of the comment made by the president,” Wynn said. “Whatever the president’s intentions were, it gives you an idea of how sensitive the public is.”---Wynn said he’s created numerous jobs in the city with his Wynn Las Vegas and Encore resorts. He said the government can’t boast of the same accomplishment.

“I created 4,000 or 5,000 jobs here,” he said. “Does that make us a bad guy? How many new jobs did Uncle Sam create? Zero. “

CAIRO (AP) - The former head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency who has emerged as an opposition leader in Egypt appealed to the government Saturday to heed calls for change before frustration over a stale political system ruled by one man for nearly 30 years spirals out of control.

Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel laureate who has seen a wave of support from youths and reformists who see him as a potential challenger to President Hosni Mubarak, told The Associated Press that getting the general public on board with a peaceful movement is his biggest challenge.

...there was a chance to save this situation last week. If the operators had voted in favor of the concessions, they could have made the case that they were doing their part for the city, recognized that times are tough for everyone and built some good will.

Instead, they look defensive, angry and out of touch. Irwin Lum, head of the Transport Workers Union Local 250-A, says if Elsbernd is hoping to force another vote on the concessions, he is wasting his time.

"He's holding a gun to our heads for political advantage," Lum said. "As long as there is going to be a ballot initiative anyhow, why are we giving up $15 million if they are just going to take it from us later?"

Oh, I don't know, how about because it will be much worse for the drivers if the amendment passes? It will open the door for an examination of some of the work rules - like being allowed to call in sick one day a week and still earn overtime.

At this point, the operators say their position is set in concrete and they will just have to accept whatever comes out of the November election.

"We don't have a choice," said Lum.

Actually, you did. You voted it down. This would be a good time to see if you can get that deal again.

It is preposterous that businesses are under attack in the United States of America. Anybody that makes over $250,000 in the form of a personal income tax return is now, by Washington definition, a rich person, when everybody who has got a college degree knows that the personal income tax rate in the United States of America is the business tax of America.

I am disgusted and angry at the apparent ignorance of the administration and the Congress to recognize the fact that the individual tax rate in the United States of America is in fact a business tax of America. And if you keep banging on that, you will destroy the incentive for job formation in the United States of America.

For all of you that hated BUSH for going into Iraq to get rid of Saddam Hussein

Read this and kiss my ass...

By Mihemed Eli Zalla 25/02/2010 Three mass graves were discovered in the sub district of Dubiz in Kirkuk. Announced the Kurdish daily news paper ASO on Sunday, Feb.21st. These graves are to be excavated by the Ministry of Anfaled and Martyrs of Kurdistan regional government in a near future.

“The graves are holding remnants of children from both Chamchamal and Garmyan areas”. Sayd Fazil Amin the head of KRG martyrs office in Kirkuk told ASO, these kids were taken into captivity during 1988 Anfal campaign against the Kurds.

Anfal genocide was a campaign against the Kurds in 1980s. It was aimed at the elimination of the Kurds in Iraq, by destroying and burning Kurdish villages down. Killing and burying alive the people of these villages. It costed over 200,000 lives of innocent Kurds.

The media channels have not yet been invited to publish the unearthing of these three ‘out of hundreds of’ mass graves. We will soon invite the Arabic as well as other foreign media and officially announce the discovery, added Amin.

“We were jailed in a prison in Dubiz for a while. The only thing we knew then was that of, our crime was being a Kurd. In Dubiz they separated us into men, women and children” Bafraw, an Anfal survivor told Hawler Tribune, “Amanj, my 7 year old son, before taken away was very sick, I asked if I could go with him. They [soldiers] told me, do not worry we will put an end to his sickness, I know how they did it”

Kurds know all their beloved Anfaled ones are dead somewhere in the deserts of Iraq. All they are awaiting for is the return of their remnants. As said Bafraw “Ever since then I have been waiting for him”

A group of experts from ministry of Anfaled and Martyrs are to excavate these graves soon. The graves hold remnants of 272 children and the oldest one among them is a 16 year old girl. A pregnant woman is also among them, added Amin.

MARJAH, Afghanistan (AP) — Marines and Afghan troops cleared the last major pocket of resistance in the former Taliban-ruled town of Marjah on Saturday — part of an offensive that is the run-up to a larger showdown this year in the most strategic part of Afghanistan's dangerous south.

Although Marines say their work in Marjah isn't done, Afghans are bracing for a bigger, more comprehensive assault in neighboring Kandahar province, the birthplace of the Taliban where officials are talking to aid organizations about how to handle up to 10,000 people who could be displaced by fighting.

I was talking to a friend last evening. He has done quite well in the commercial real estate market especially in student housing.

What's so on is very, very ugly and can get even worse and last a long, long time.

What I learned confirmed my desire to detach from all debts and investments.

The mortgage market is such a screwed up disaster that legally, it could take years to sort out. Long story short, notes and mortgages have been separated as the paper has been resold and reassigned.

In the meantime, the lawyers will get richer and richer as predatory mortgage servicers seek to foreclose on producing properties which have maturing mortgages. In other words, even good properties which throw off a lot of cash are being foreclosed only because lenders will not make new loans.

I did notice Danica Patrick for the first time yesterday in a late night news clip and was a little...mystified. Rather shovel-faced and thin-lipped, and quite short. Though I don't question her driving ability one bit.

"For all of you that hated BUSH for going into Iraq to get rid of Saddam Hussein

Read this and kiss my ass..."

The world is a shit place and we do our part.

In addition to the thousands of US dead and wounded in Iraq, estimates for the Iraqi dead range from 100,000 to 600,000. Iraqi refugees as a result of the war: over 2,000,000.

It's the mideast version of winning friends and influencing people.

History is written by the winners. I was against the war going into it. However, if pre-war estimates had been realistic ($1.6 - $60 billion cost, weapons of mass destruction found, out of there in a year or so) Bush would have been a hero. Instead what we got was zero planning, poor execution, incompetance and a $1 trillion dollar plus price tag.

We skewed the system to favor money men, those who made easy money breaking companies and punished through regulation, tax and tariff those men that created real wealth, built things, invented things and hired people to work.

We skewed the system to favor the jackals, the John Edwards of the animal world , that made big easy money taking down doctors and innovators, risk takers.

We skewed the system so that the gun slinger doctor who could save your life was run out of town replaced with the safe and meek doctor who can safely and quietly sew you back up to die with dignity and he can protect his portfolio from a John Edwards.

"We skewed the system so that the gun slinger doctor who could save your life was run out of town replaced with the safe and meek doctor who can safely and quietly sew you back up to die with dignity and he can protect his portfolio from a John Edwards."---Amen to that.Wife and child may well have been saved by a gunsinslinger who intervened with a "sew you back up to die"loser, reading a book when he should have been monitering and attending to a woman giving birth.

The reason you see no strategy in the Dubai assassination is that you have bought into the MSM coverage, which portrayed it as a poorly handled goof that left the Mossad wide open. Many commentators said the assassination was beneath the Mossad - as if the Mossad had somehow forgotten their expertise and flubbed up.

Do you seriously believe this is the case? Where you see no strategy, I see grand strategy. Think about what the Israelis have done.

They have waltzed into Dubai, allowed themselves to be videotaped every which way -- including while putting on costumes and wigs -- killed a man, and waltzed right back out. They did it in plain sight. And they did it using British passports.

What does this say to Hamas, and Arab nation onlookers? It says that wherever you are, whatever you are doing, however many video cameras you may have watching you, we will find you, and we will kill you. And you will know who we are, and yet you will never find us. And MOST importantly: we are going to do it in as brazen a manner as possible.

We are even going to swipe the passports of some innocent British citizens, daring the West to criticize us. But we don't care. We are going to kill you in such a manner that you will immediately be able to track us down - but we'll already be gone. The Israelis didn't use fake passports not because they didn't have the technical expertise or the brains, but because they wanted to pull off their assassination in the most brazen, flagrant manner possible, while still allowing themselves to get away with it.

And just because the British and American pundits didn't pick up on this, doesn't mean Hamas didn't get the point.

And surely any message to Hamas is really also a message to Iran. Is Netanyahu willing and able to launch a new war that will engulf the West over the wishes of the US president? I think he's telling us the answer to that question.

The character of The Sergeant in The Big Red One is one I could watch every other week and not grow bored, though most men, I have found, prefer his performance in The Dirty Dozen. Because it's The Dirty Dozen.

My dad will always be a big fan of Cat Ballou and has been known to call on my birthday to give me the Kid Shelleen rendition of Happy Birthday To You.

"A pilot from Mathewson's squadron at Creech Air Force base guided his drone over the Ranger position. The Predator had never been used in a hot battle to support ground troops, and the Air Force controller embedded with the Rangers was hesitant to let it fire.

"To prove its accuracy, the Predator crew launched one of its two Hellfire missiles at an empty hilltop. The hit was accurate, but it left the drone with only one missile. The pilot steadied his plane and squeezed the "pickle" button on his stick, setting loose his last missile and obliterating the Taliban machine-gun nest. "We would have all died without the Predator," the controller recalled months later to Air Force officials..."

WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said Tuesday that President Barack Obama has asked him to “find ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries” as the White House pushes the space agency to become a tool of international diplomacy.

Specifically, he talked about connecting with countries that do not have an established space program and helping them conduct science missions. He mentioned new opportunities with Indonesia, including an educational program that examines global climate change.

I dunno. Whizzing around a slick, enclosed surface with fucking meat cleavers on your feet, whacking at a small object known to have killed participants and spectators alike, doesn't strike me as the equivalent of paint drying.

Well, gee, some professional hockey players from the U.S. and Canada that normally play for teams from the U.S. and Canada got together and beat some professional hockey players from the U.S. and Canada that normally play on hockey teams from the U.S. and Canada.

I guess we all gotta commit suicide, now, or somethin, huh? Except for Ash, who is, suddenly, wealthier, smarter, and better looking than ever before (and will probably get laid tonight for the first time since the Last Olympics.)

I have learned three things on my road trip to Kentucky a) I have more road rage than I thought, especially with people who feel the need to speed past me just to get in front of me only to slow down just to kick up all the salt on the road onto my car...fucking prick with no mud flaps. b) I pay 125.00 a year for uninterrupted satellite radio only to find that in the 12 hour drive here, I have heard at least four songs repeated three times and now I need to write someone and c) their bare trees here...are really spooky.

According to German official data, four people were killed in Germany as their cars were struck by trees dragged down by the gust. The Frankfurt airport had to cancel at least 200 flights due to sweeping winds up to 130 km per hour and the city's central train station was forced to close temporarily.

A woman in England was reportedly killed in her car by surging floods.

Before landing on France, Xynthia had already caused three deaths in Spain and one in Portugal.

We had a great time. I always make the most of any situation, no matter what. The drive is boring, though, there's nothing to see but mountains and trees. So, my camera is filled with mountains and trees. I'm having a Michelob lime and trying to find what's first on the agenda for tomorrow.

Many are the conversations I've had in the South - which I do love - where I've had to ask some poor fellow or gal to repeat what they said a third time. At that point, you just smile and nod like the alien visitor that you are.

Eventually it doesn't sound so much like they're trying to communicate with a mouth full of marbles.

And I'll tell you what: The drawl of many a Southern woman could absolutely charm the Pope out of his pants.

One of God's gifts to men and Mankind alike, I think, that sweet, soothing drawl.

Doug, an American farmer, for example, might be using a 12 row combine to harvest his corn. One man sitting on top of a 12 row John Deere can gather up to 120 Acres/Day. And, he's getting 165 bu/acre.

Most corn in China is picked by hand. A man with a bushel basket. And, he's probably getting less than a hundred bu/acre. Guess who exports corn, and who imports corn?

We can beat those guys (in fact, we do every day in advanced, high value products,) but we have to operate at a higher level than them.

Those guys, and gals working at that grunge-hole can learn how to operate sophisticated equipment; but, we've gotta make the training available. And we better do it soon, because those shitty jobs will be gone in a year, or two. Like the man said; even that goofy thing they're doing with repackaging screws can be done with a $50,000.00 machine.

Next year, or the year after, that machine will cost $30,000.00, and the gov. will make him a deal on depreciation, and those folks will be hittin the briks.

We manufacture more than ever. We do it with less, and less people. That trend has to accelerate.

You keep wanting simple answers that fit into a sound-byte. They don't exist. A lot of different things are involved. One is healthcare. I won't go there right now. As I said, "Training" is huge. You've gotta have access to capital. We have a lot of Capital in the country; access is screwed up right now. Tax policy is really, really important. What Goldman Sachs wants isn't necessarily what we need.

This was my heart, my choice and my health," Williams said late Monday from his condominium in Sarasota, Fla.

"I did not sign away my right to get the best possible health care for myself when I entered politics."---His doctors in Canada presented him with two options - a full or partial sternotomy, both of which would've required breaking bones, he said.

He said he spoke with and provided his medical information to a leading cardiac surgeon in New Jersey who is also from Newfoundland and Labrador. He advised him to seek treatment at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami.

That's where he was treated by Dr. Joseph Lamelas, a cardiac surgeon who has performed more than 8,000 open-heart surgeries.

Williams said Lamelas made an incision under his arm that didn't require any bone breakage.

We will have to start manufacturing more of the Walmart type products one of these days. But, we can't do it with 20th Century assembly lines. We'll have to do it with 21st Century methods.

As for Health Care: It's just so much more complicated than you want to make it out to be. It's not just a "Social Good" argument; it's, also, a "business" argument. I'm taking "meds" at the present, so I'll try to flesh out the "business" argument another day.

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Magnificent Ronald and the Founding Fathers of al Qaeda

“These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.” — Ronald Reagan while introducing the Mujahideen leaders to media on the White house lawns (1985). During Reagan’s 8 years in power, the CIA secretly sent billions of dollars of military aid to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in a US-supported jihad against the Soviet Union. We repeated the insanity with ISIS against Syria.